Eight new Israeli films will participate this year in the Hajj competition for Israeli feature films as part of the Jerusalem Film Festival, which will take place from July 21 to 31.
Seven films will compete in the documentary competition this year.
In addition, the festival will also feature a short Israeli film competition and a video art and experimental film competition, and the total amount of prizes to be awarded in the various competitions at the festival will be about NIS 1 million.
The films of the plot competition are "June Zero," by Jake Paltrow (brother of actress Gwyneth Paltrow), which takes place in the days before the execution of Adolf Eichmann;
"Valeria is getting married", by Michal Winick ("Brush"), about a Ukrainian citizen who is destined to marry an Israeli man;
"Barren," by Mordechai Vardi, which deals with a pair of childless Breslav followers who live in Safed;
"America," by Ophir Raoul Greitzer ("The Baker from Berlin"), which focuses on a swimming teacher returning to an Israeli from the United States after a ten-year absence;
And "Karaoke," by Moshe Rosenthal, which tells the story of a couple in their sixties whose world is shaken following an encounter with a karaoke-loving neighbor.
The other films in the competition are "Concerned Citizen," by Idan Hagoel, centered on a resident of south Tel Aviv who finds himself in an unexpected chain of events after planting a tree on the street where he lives;
"All I Can," by Shiri Nevo Friedental, which traces the life of a young lawyer;
And "The Road to Eilat", by Yona Rosenkiar ("The Dive"), about an unemployed and depressed man who comes to visit his childhood kibbutz with his wife and son.
"Concerned citizen", Photo: Guy Sahaf
The documentary competition will feature the films "Egypt, a Song of Love", by Iris Zaki, which accompanies an intimate family journey following the Egyptian Jewish singer Suad Zaki;
"Savoy", by Zohar Wagner, which tells the story of Kochava Levy, who was taken hostage during the attack on the Savoy Hotel in Tel Aviv in 1975;
"The Opinion of a Soldier", by Assaf Banit and Shai Hazkani, which presents a version of the Israeli story through an analysis of IDF soldiers' letters over the years; Intergenerational trauma.
The list of competitors will be completed by "Two Children a Day," which deals with the arrest of Palestinian minors in the West Bank;
"Living in the Shadow of Death", by Bilal Yosef, which deals with the rising violence in the Arab localities in Israel;
And "The Partisan with the Leica Camera," by Ruth Velek, which tells the story of Mundak Lukowitzky, the only Jewish member of the Polish rival Armia Krajowa.
"Conveys the spirit of the period in a sharp and precise manner."
"The Triangle of Sadness", Photo: Fredrik Wenzel, Platform Produktion
The 39th edition of the Jerusalem Film Festival will include more than 200 films from 50 countries.
The opening film of the festival, which will be screened outdoors in the Sultan's Pool, will be 'Triangle of Sadness', the wild social satire of the controversial Swedish director Ruben Ostlund who won the Palme d'Or at the last Cannes Film Festival.
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